MISRA Job Trends in Scotland

Motor Industry Software Reliability Association (MISRA)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring MISRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 142 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Permanent jobs citing MISRA 9 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.33% 0.078% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.36% 0.53% -
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -4.17%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

MISRA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 382 375 391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.96% 14.61% 12.53%
Number of salaries quoted 104 108 200
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,675 £32,000
25th Percentile £34,625 £42,500 £42,267
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,900 £79,648 £72,433
90th Percentile £89,625 £110,000 £78,154
UK median annual salary £58,300 £60,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -2.83% +3.51% +0.81%

MISRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MISRA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

MISRA job vacancy trend in Scotland

MISRA
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing MISRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing MISRA

MISRA
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MISRA within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +1 9 £60,000 -4.00%
MISRA
UK

MISRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) Senior
1 9 (100.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) CAN bus
1 9 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (100.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 9 (100.00%) Safety Engineering
1 9 (100.00%) SDLC
1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C
1 9 (100.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) IEC 61508
1 9 (100.00%) MISRA C
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Functional Safety